By skyforbes Anyway, I posted this paper called Mixture of Thoughts to arXiv a little over two months ago and submitted it to ICLR. A few days ago, this paper called Latent Collaboration in Multi-Agent Systems came out as a preprint on arXiv. Basically, both of ours are latent collaboration frameworks in the same realm as an MoE/MoA architecture. I did extensive research before publishing my paper, as it was the first to use this latent collaboration idea (even mentioning this term 30+ times in the paper). I read their "LatentMAS" paper, which also claimed that they were the first "latent collaboration" framework. Originally, I reached out to them in good faith that they perhaps missed my paper, and politely referred them to my previous paper. I got some strange response back inferring that they would not cite my paper. Their paper wasn't even submitted to a conference or anything at the same time as mine; it just came out as a preprint a few days ago.
The paper I submitted to arXiv was published two months ago, which is indeed a short timeframe, but as I mentioned, I reached out to the authors of the paper and sent them my previous paper (they couldn't care less). The paper is blowing up right now, and it's a very tragic situation. I am watching months of my hard work go straight down the gutter, and I can't do anything about it.
I really just wanted to clear the air and have them cite my work and remove some of the claims about being the first "latent collaboration" idea, but apparently, that is too much to ask for. What should I do here? What can I do?